All posts tagged "Church of England"
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6.8K1MassachusettsThe Puritans Burn the Book of Sports
Merrie Old England used to spend Sunday afternoons the way we do now: enjoying sports. King James actually encouraged his subjects to...
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5.3K1ConnecticutEquity, Maine Meets the New England Divorce Reform League
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response to a divorce crisis in the country. The...
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4.9KRhode IslandGeorge Berkeley, World-Famous Philosopher, Moves to the Wilds of RI in 1729
Bishop George Berkeley was a world famous Anglo-Irish philosopher by the time he stepped onto dry land in Newport, R.I., on Jan. 23, 1729....
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7.4K2Arts and LeisureThe Mysterious 1644 Portrait of Roger Williams
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
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43.8K5MassachusettsPuritan Easter, or The Devil’s Holiday
John Winthrop famously wrote in this journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
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8.6K7MassachusettsIn 1685 Massachusetts Legalized Christmas to Samuel Sewall’s Dismay
In 1685, a tolerant wind blew briefly through England when James II ascended to the throne. He ordered greater freedom for Roman...
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9.3K4Religion and Social MovementsBenedict Arnold and the Rhode Island Quakers, Ranters and Heretics
Rhode Island Quakers had cause to esteem Benedict Arnold more than a century before his descendant brought disgrace to his name. In...
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11.4K10MassachusettsLady Deborah Moody, A Dangerous Woman, Comes to New England
In 1654, when New York governor Peter Stuyvesant needed help collecting taxes, he turned to Deborah Moody. The career of the Salem,...
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35.2K83MassachusettsThe Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
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12.8K14MassachusettsRemembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, probably the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
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